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IPCC Sixth Assessment approaches towards FAIR data and an enhanced data reuse
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  • Martina Stockhause,
  • Alaa Al Khourdajie,
  • Andres Alegria,
  • Robert Chen,
  • David Huard,
  • Martin Juckes,
  • Charlotte Pascoe,
  • Anna Pirani,
  • Robin Matthews,
  • Elvira Poloczanska,
  • Sebastian Vicuna,
  • Xiaoshi Xing,
  • Özge Yelekçi
Martina Stockhause
German Climate Computing Center / Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum GmbH (DKRZ)

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Alaa Al Khourdajie
Imperial College London
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Andres Alegria
IPCC WGII Technical Support Unit (TSU)
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Robert Chen
Columbia University
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David Huard
Ouranos
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Martin Juckes
STFC
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Charlotte Pascoe
STFC
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Anna Pirani
Technical Support Unit of IPCC WGI
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Robin Matthews
IPCC WGI Technical Support Unit (TSU)
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Elvira Poloczanska
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, WGII Technical Support Unit
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Sebastian Vicuna
Centro de Cambio Global UC
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Xiaoshi Xing
Columbia University
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Özge Yelekçi
IPCC WGI Technical Support Unit (TSU)
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Abstract

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) currently prepares its Sixth Assessment Report (AR6). Its authors assess peer-reviewed scientific literature and recent climate datasets to inform policy-makers about the current state of the science regarding climate change and its impacts, as well as adaptation and mitigation options. For AR6, efforts are underway to make its main results FAIR and preserve them in the TRUSTworthy repositories of the IPCC Data Distribution Centre (DDC), jointly managed by CEDA, DKRZ, and CIESIN. The AR6 FAIR initiative was kickstarted by the IPCC DDC and Working Group I (WGI) [Stockhause et al., 2019], then adopted by IPCC TG-Data (Task Group on Data Support for Climate Change Assessments) shortly after its creation. All three WGs have adopted the FAIR data guidelines. IPCC assessments are large and diverse in in terms of scientists involved as well as included scientific objects. Challenges for digital data curation are related to the scale and diversity of papers, reports, datasets, the variety of software, and the different familiarity of the scientists with these technical aspects. The following priority areas for improved data stewardship were selected based on the aims to enhance the traceability of AR6 key findings and their reusability: preserve figure datasets in the DDC; - preserve analysis software; . preserve main input datasets in the DDC; . assemble datasets and provenance information on the figure creation from IPCC authors; and . interlink datasets to the IPCC report. Datasets are transferred to the DDC at the end of AR6. The DDC partners are responsible to preserve the data for future reuse by different stakeholders and under a variety of current and future scientific and policy-related questions. As the role for the DDC expands within the IPCC, new partners are sought. The TRUST principles provide a framework for the communication of DDC tasks to different stakeholders, e.g. to countries interested to host a DDC. The presentation will give an overview over the IPCC AR6 approaches towards FAIR data maintained in TRUSTworthy repositories, their challenges, their approach to meet these challenges and open questions, e.g. the integration of digital data into the IPCC Error Protocol, targeted within TG-Data.